11
Brent’s compendious Astronomer.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 115, no. 12, as above.
BRENT,
Charles.
The Compendious Astronomer: containing New and Correct Tables, for Computing in a concise Manner, the Places of the Luminaries;
digested from Numbers founded on the latest Observations; all the Tables hitherto published making the Apogé of the Sun about
Seven Minutes too far. The Tables of the Moon are disposed according to Sir Isaac Newton’s Theory . . . The Young Arithmetician’s
and Historian’s Perpetual and Universal Pocket-Chronologer, curiously engraved on a Copper-Plate, by which and a very easy
Arithmetical Calculus, may be determined . . . To render this Treatise independent of any other, there is likewise introduced,
the Theory of Decimal Arithmetic, both Terminate and Circulate; together with their Demonstrations, which by the late ingenious
Mr. Cunn, and other Authors, are omitted. By Charles Brent.
London: Printed for
J. Robinson; and
W. and T. Payne,
m. dcc. xli.
[1741.]
QB42 .B8
First Edition. Second Issue. 8vo. 209 leaves, the last for the errata list, folded leaf with engraved diagrams headed Perpetual
Chronologer by J. Bird, engraved astronomical diagram on the first page of text.
Watt I, 148.
Lalande, page 415.
Not in Houzeau.
The copy of this work in the Library of Congress is of the first issue, with date 1740, of which no other copy has been traced,
and which appears to be unknown to bibliographers. There is no entry for this work, either issue, in the British Museum Catalogue.
[3790]
12
Keill’s Astronomy.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 115, no. 4, as above.
KEILL,
John.
An Introduction to the true Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford.
By John Keill, M.D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and Professor of Astronomy in that University . . . The
Sixth Edition, corrected.
London: Printed for
J. Buckland [and others],
1769.
8vo. 216 leaves, folded engraved maps and plates of diagrams. A copy of this edition was not seen; a copy of the fourth edition,
1748, is in the Library of Congress.
This edition not in Lowndes.
This edition not in Lalande and not in Houzeau.
This edition not in Sotheran.
For a note on John Keill see no. 3724 above. This work which consists of Keill’s Savillian lectures was originally issued in
Latin, in Oxford, 1718. The first edition in
English, with emendations, was printed in 1721.
[3791]
13
Whiston’s Astronomy.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 116, no. 5, as above.
WHISTON,
William.
Astronomical Principles of Religion, Natural and Revealed. Together with a Preface of the Temper of Mind necessary for the
Discovery of Divine Truth . . .
London: Printed for
J. Senex,
1717.
